some of those companies that are at the bottom of this letter, are one of the worst i've ever seen. many of them are known to just copy other indie games, and just heavily monetize them.
It reminds me of 2048 vs threes. Thing is, sometimes I prefer a casual game.
The copying is still poor taste, I agree with that. At the same time the titles can be different and respond to different market needs.
I’m not sure what to think of that or about the industry as a whole. Especially since when I searched donut county on the app store, there were more copycats.
It has been speculated by many that this is all about Unity Technologies wanting a much larger share of the billion dollar profits of the gatcha games based on Unity.
If all indie devs quit Unity, but HoYoverse (the company behind the money printing press "Genshin Impact") does not, it would still massively increase the profits of Unity Technologies.
Of course because we are literally talking about billions of dollars on the table here HoYoverse & Co will probably all try sueing first.
So the answer here may legitimately be that Hoyoverse isn't affected by this.
Genshin is using a highly customized Unity Engine bound under Unity China and the developer hoyoverse is a major shareholder in Unity China as well.
Unity China is a separate entity from Unity Technologies.
https://blog.unity.com/news/unity-forms-new-venture-to-manag...
Tell me when the developers of Among Us, Pokemon, GRIS, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Ori, Cities: Skylines, etc. join the letter.
You're missing the point entirely. This is for FTP ad supported games, the 2 you mention (of which only one actually uses Unity) are all paid games.
How about the big studios pulling support for Unity:
Massive Monster (Cult of the Lamb): https://twitter.com/MassiveMonster/status/170180856714010263...
Mega Crit (Slay the Spire): https://twitter.com/MegaCrit/status/1702077576209207611
Inner Sloth (HEY LOOK, AMONG US): https://twitter.com/InnerslothDevs/status/170173139849801357...
and plenty of others I'm too lazy to pull up.
Why would they join this letter?
Nintendo does not develop the Pokemon games - Game Freak does.
Nintendo, however, does publish some of the Pokemon games and does partially own the Pokemon IP through The Pokemon Company.
Originally it was "Stardew Valley, Among Us, Nintendo, etc."
You may not have heard of them but each of these companies have a billion downloads in their portfolio minimum. This is massive that they all rejected this.